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When "day to day" displaces dreams.

Residual Effuary OK, what the frack is wrong with me? I'm still reeling from the month of "Eff"-uary: me being sick, closing the store. I just don't feel like I can deal with life anymore!! Or is it that I got my pay today? The whole month of March, I put in 33 hours. So this paycheck was for 16 hours. Yay! It's gone. Thank GOD my brother sent out the food and gas cards. Thank you brudder Jon! We really are going to need those to get through! I'm at work right now. I got in round about 1:30 P...

Divining your true self: Divining 102 - Generalizations just won't do. Every one of us has had that moment of recognition (however fleeting) when we feel that there is something else, some kind of energy, magnetism, spirit force, or synchronicity that guides us. There are times when we say to ourselves, "It can't be just a coincidence!" Whether or not we believe that there is divine intelligence, or we believe that it is our inner consciousness that guides us, we find that we can't ignore the...

Every once in a while we all get a little lost. Perhaps life sends you a series of blows that knock you off your kilter, perhaps you find yourself at the start of a new road in the new year, or perhaps you've just reached a benchmark in your life that leaves your head spinning while you wonder, "what's next?" During these times it can be helpful to take a moment alone with a pen and paper and re-focus. Who am I? What do I want? Are the things that are important to me, the same things that wer...

The Elephant and the See-Saw (The Theory of Balance.) One universal truth that we all learned in elementary school is the theory of equilibrium. Later we may have learned how this theory applies to biology, chemistry, economics and physics, but it doesn't seem that anyone really told us how this theory applies to life. The easiest way to explain how the theory of equilibrium applies to life is to take a closer look at the patterns of weight loss in an individual. A person may diet for a week ...